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Originally Posted by Musicman51
Dale if you will reread my post, i never mentioned a word about power...no idea where you came away with that statement from what i typed, and if you will also read my post again you will clearly see the words....
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If I can give my assessment, Dale is trying to keep the discussions on topic, which was started by Stefan's discussion of "running on battery power". I don't think Dale was criticizing your posts. Often Dale and I only quote (or don't quote any) the last post to answer. I see Dale's post being more general than just answering your post.
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Originally Posted by Stefan
On my laptop, when running on battery power, even though in power settings to run on max performance during battery power, the lyrics slow right down. Plug the power lead in and then it all becomes good.
Stef
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This established the Topic for this Thread.
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Originally Posted by ddouglass
I don't know of any programs designed specifically to run on under-powered lower quality laptops. Hoster is designed to try to use the least amount of processor time possible to prevent overloading the system. However there is no way to design a program to work with a slow sound card or a video card with too little memory.
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Dale has been an active Beta Tester for some time. He has watched MTU engineers try "this and that", and seen the results of all the testers. He understands Hoster and its evolution very well. We have tried to work around poorly performing systems, with mixed results. Most often, after wasting MTU's and our Tester's time, we revert back to a requirement for a hardware system that is able to do the job.
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Originally Posted by ddouglass
The situation was running on battery rather than A/C. When a laptop goes on battery everything is slowed down because the amount of power fed to each of the items decreases slightly to make the battery last longer.
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Dale's several decades as a Technical Support expert for the Air Force, through actual hands on of over 6,000 computers if I remember right, allows him to be aware of things like this that even MTU would not consider.
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Originally Posted by ddouglass
Laptops were originally designed for businessmen who travel and was never designed as an entertainment device. They still are not up to what desktops are capable of and probably never will be.
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This is an accurate statement. It also is driving the latest evolution in processor designs, as everyone now wants a laptop or netbook or... iPad. Due to heat and battery power savings requirements, Laptops are handicapped versus larger cased systems.
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Originally Posted by ddouglass
I wouldn't know about your warranty statement as I have never seen that on any of mine. As far as my show machines I built them so I guess they have a lifetime warranty.  They are the Shuttle-type cases complete with handles and travel quite well. |
I too have never heard of a warranty that restricts mobile use. I can't imagine a manufacturer stating this in writing. If o, stop looking at it and leave that store... they are WAY out of touch with reality.
Thank you for pointing out that Dell has this warranty limitation. I'm shocked...
but that is why we sell our Ruggedized Laptop designed for Mobile Karaoke Hosts.
If I may add... this Thread has run its course of Problem-Discussions--Answer. Dale and I will leave it open a while longer, but probably will close it tonight ot tomorrow.
